Mid-Morning Budget Update.

First off, a clarification on the timing of a House vote on the mainline budget bill.

Because the spending plan is a House bills returned with amendments from the Senate, the chamber's internal rules require a 24-hour waiting period from the time the bill was first amended (which was Monday, for those of you playing along at home).

We are reliably informed that this means that once the budget is sprung from the House Rules Committee, a vote can take place at anytime.

We've been told that House Democrats and Republicans were to caucus at 10 a.m. this morning, so things could start moving fairly quickly.

In other news, the text of Rep. Seth Grove's back-end referendum language for school districts is now available for your reading pleasure.

From what we can tell, only two exceptions -- pensions and special education -- survive from the 10 or so exceptions in the original Act I law. If there are school district types in the audience who can clarify, we'd appreciate the heads-up. We're big on crowd-sourcing.